Museum Events/Exhibitions
LAST DAY OF THE MYRTLE AVENUE EL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THERESA KING
Opening in 1888, the Myrtle Avenue el ran from downtown Brooklyn to Queens, passing through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Ridgewood, and Middle Village. After eighty years, ...
Light on New Netherland
New Netherland - the Dutch province that stretched from today's New York State to parts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut - existed for 55 years and its legacy lives on. Just two ...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York's impact on him. This exhibition of...
NATURE AND THE AMERICAN VISION: THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The New-York Historical Society continues to showcase together more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. ...
New York Through the Lens: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
The Museum of the City of New York's collection of more than 350,000 prints and photographs is a remarkable visual resource that documents the built environment of the city and its changing cultural, ...
Tivoli: A Place We Call Home
Curated by Delphine Fawundu. A multi-media exhibition of photographs, words and video documenting the people of Tivoli Towers, a 35-year-old apartment building in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
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PETER STUYVESANT TELEPHONE TOUR
PETER STUYVESANT'S GHOST TELEPHONE TOUR linked pay telephones throughout the footprint of Peter Stuyvesant's original farm with a central telephone server, which hosted 'messages' of up to 1 minute cr...
Special Events
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk: Brooklyn in Prints
In celebration of the Centennial of the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA), BHS and BHA will co-host the special exhibition Brooklyn in Prints featuring rare and unusual prints that depict Brooklyn He...
The 3rd Annual Panorama Challenge
Come to the Queens Museum of Art on Friday, February 26th from 7-10pm to participate in the world’s ONLY geographical trivia-based game night involving the world’s largest panorama – The Panoram...
Walking Tours
Lower East Side History Project - Astor Place: Old New York
Although the site of New York's second deadliest riot -- a two-day confrontation between Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, patrician and slum-dweller -- Astor Place was at the time the most eleg...
Lower East Side History Project - Chinatown/Five Points
Chinatown/Five Points Walking Tour: New York's legendary slum, a story of Irish, Italians, Africans, Germans, Jews and Chinese, their struggles, their cultures; gangs of New York to the tongs of China...
Lower East Side History Project: Historic Women: Movers & Shakers
Historic Women: Movers & Shakers NYC Walking Tour: From breaking new ground in music, art, literature, fashion and medicine, to advancements in working conditions and women's rights, the women of the ...
New York TV & Movie Tour
The New York TV & Movie Tour takes you through the history of the most filmed city in the world. Go On Location to sites from your favorite movies and tv shows, from the classics to today....
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